Recording And Playback; Recording - Roland KR-11 Owner's Manual

8. Recording and Playback

8.1 Recording

Normal recording
The KR-11 also features a "Composer" that functions
like a digital tape recorder. You can record your own
songs, as well as play songs using commercially avail-
able music data. Please be aware that the Composer
records instructions (called MIDI messages) rather
than sounds. That explains why you cannot record
your singing.
You can store one song at a time. During recording,
the data is automatically separated and recorded onto
five separate tracks.
Rhythm
Whole, Layer
What is a track?
On devices like tape recorders, sounds that are played
back through the left and right speakers are recorded
onto separate places on tape. These places are called
"tracks". As you see, your KR-11 provides five tracks in
Normal mode, i.e. five places where MIDI messages
can be recorded. The advantage of working with tracks
is that you can re-record or change (edit) just one part
while listening to the other tracks.
Let's record something
1. Press the [REC] button.
The Composer goes into standby mode. The [REC]
indicator lights up, while the [PLAY] indicator flashes.
The tracks onto which the performance is recorded
are selected automatically, and the track button's indi-
cator will flash.
In Whole Keyboard mode, you can record onto any
track except the Rhythm track. In that case, the track
whose button is pressed last will be the recording
track.
Note: If a disk has been inserted into the disk drive, or after
playing back a song on disk, you need to press the [SONG]
button to bring up the Song Select screen. Select
<U: User Song> and press the [REC] button.
Accompaniment
and bass Upper
Lower
2. Begin recording.
• When you are ready to record the melody of a song
with Arranger backup, start Style playback (see "Start-
ing a Music Style"), and recording begins.
• To record a piano or organ piece without accompani-
ment, press the [PLAY] button.
Note: Remember that you can use the Rhythm section when
playing a piano or organ piece. If that is what you want to
do, see the preceding bullet.
Two measures of count-in will sound, after which
recording will begin. The [PLAY] indicator now lights.
3. When the song is finished, press the [STOP] or
[RESET] button.
The indicator for the track on which the performance
was recorded will light.
Note: Recording will also stop if you stop the Style (see
above) by pressing either the [INTRO/ENDING] or the
[START/STOP] button.
Note: It is also possible to keep the Composer from deacti-
vating the Record Standby mode whenever you stop record-
ing. See "Recording Mode" on page 36.
Note: If the internal memory of your KR-11 already con-
tains a song, you will be unable to select songs from a disk. If
that is what you want to do, first save your song to another
disk (see page 34), then erase the song in the KR-11's inter-
nal memory (see "Erasing the Composer song" on page 33).
Alternatively, press <OK> in response to the message "User
Song will be erased. Are you sure?"
Note: Remember that there is only one DSP effect. That is
why it is impossible to use different DSP types for different
tracks.
Cautions
If, after recording, the power is turned off, the
recorded performance will be erased. If you want to
save performances you've recorded, please refer to
"Saving a song to disk".
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